April 2010 Blog Posts (58)

By Margie Plunkett

Alderman Karen Wiggins stepped down from Briny Breezes Town Council to accept a seat on the corporate board last month, leaving vacant a two-year term that will be

filled by appointment.

“We’ll be looking for a…

Local merchants talk about Walmart

By Dianna Smith

Small business owners are wondering if their…

Cathy Patterson

Co-owner of Natural Forest Patio

In business 33 years and family-owned…

Sarah Onnen knew what she wanted to be since she was little, except she never thought it was possible.

Get paid to swim with animals?…

“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

— Mark Twain…

By Margie Plunkett

A majority of residents favor rehiring the Boynton Beach Police Department to patrol and protect Briny Breezes, according to a survey conducted by the town

as aldermen prepare to choose between Boynton Beach and the Ocean Ridge Police

Department in May.…

By Thom Smith

Once known as sleepy Delray, it now seems like the town that never sleeps. A couple of months ago we had Savor The Avenue, with diners at “long tables” down the

middle of Atlantic Avenue. Then the Delray Beach Film…

By Tim O’Meilia

His business is called “Kenny Brown’s Trapping and Wildlife Rescue.” His truck says, “Pelican and Wildlife Rescue and Release.”

The kids call him “Noah.” Or “Dr. Doolittle.” Some…

By Mary Kate Leming

Former part-time Manalapan resident Tom Petters was sentenced to 50 years in prison by a federal court in Minneapolis in early April. The sentence mandates that the least time he could spend

behind bars, with credit for good behavior, would be 41 years.…

By Angie Francalancia

Federal authorities have seized the Ocean Ridge home and another home owned by Joseph Romano, who has been accused of resurrecting a $40 million boiler room scam he

originated on Long Island with his Delray Beach-based Collectible Coins Inc.

while free on bail.…

By Mike Readling

When Palm Beach County installed 62, 1- to 2-ton pods just offshore from Ocean Ridge last year, the idea was to provide a breakwater for the beach renourishment project it had in the works.

One of the byproducts of that venture was the variety of sea life the

artificial reef was going to attract in an…

By Margie Plunkett

Ocean Ridge’s first art exhibit was so successful that even the painting Commissioners voted to buy at half price was…

By Antigone Barton

“A stack of letters,” as Mayor William Koch put it — 17 then, with three more on the way —addressed to Town Hall in April may be the most correspondence in recent

times to demand Gulf Stream commissioners’ attention, and was all the more

unusual because not one of the letters came from a…

By Tim O’Meilia

The South Palm Beach Town Council may soon be negotiating with its small police force over pay and benefits.

The Palm Beach County Police Benevolent Association has filed with the state’s Public Employee Relations Commission…

By Tim O’Meilia

The Imperial House might not wash into the sea this hurricane season after all.

Construction of most of a new $500,000 seawall to protect the 58-unit cooperative from unrelenting erosion was completed just as turtle-nesting…

By Kelly Wolfe

Barry University’s board of trustees unanimously agreed to sell its public broadcasting radio station WXEL to Classical South Florida for $3.85 million in

April.…

By Antigone Barton

The hour was late and the Boynton Beach commissioners bleary-eyed enough to decide postponing a discussion on budget matters was a good idea.

Still, the decision to give a symbolic nod to historical preservation by OK’ing…

By Margie Plunkett

Seawall construction won’t threaten the sea turtles this year: The state turned down Lantana’s request to build after the…